So I took some time today to put solderpunk's new gopher client VF-1 [0][1] through its paces. I'm using whatever version is currently installed on SDF. First let me say that I love the interface design, despite it being quite different from lynx and gopher I got used to it pretty quickly (as in a few minutes). I think anyone with REPL experience will feel at home with it. The search facility and veronica commands are very useful. I particularly like the auto-generation of menus after each operation, whether that be a search or link extraction (and that last is quite handy). Speaking of link extraction, I had a few bugs creep into my last session. Here is a transcript: VF-1> url gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/slugmax/phlog/pale_blue_dot VF-1> links [1] (gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gunnarfrost/20180116.post) [2] (gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/0/Pale_Blue_Dot) [3] (gopher://en.wikipedia.org:70/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot) [4] (gopher://www.loc.gov:70/item/cosmos000110/) VF-1> 2 VF-1> [1] [2] [3] [4] VF-1> ls [1] Continued... [2] Continued... [3] Continued... VF-1> Now those last two links are not gopher links at all, they are http links, and a quick glance confirms the parser is assuming gopher links. That said, even though link #2 was correctly parsed, it does not display. Further it seems like the internal data structures were corrupted somehow, after hitting 'enter' and typing 'ls' you can see the results. Everything else I tried worked great, including adding bookmarks, searching with 'veronica', paging via less, formatting with fold, and navigating history and menus. One suggestion - I know this version keeps track of the most recent prior gopher menu, what about storing menus on a LIFO stack? This would be subject to a maximum depth, after that the least-recently used menu falls off the bottom of the stack. Associated with this would be commands to display and go to a specific stack entry by number, or just to pop and visit the most recently pushed menu. The latter would of course alter the stack, so you could repeatedly pop your way through prior menus. Maybe this is not needed with history, but I think it matches gopher's hierarchical menu structure and gives you a way to quickly navigate a site without viewing history. That's it for now, I'll keep banging on VF-1 and see what shakes out! [0] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/solderpunk/phlog/introducing-vf1.txt [1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/solderpunk/files/vf1.py